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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Situating the study within an ecological perspective on language education, this article examines how secondary schools in England present Modern Languages (MLs) on official school websites. Focusing on 44 schools in Local Authorities with the lowest percentage average entry for the Languages pillar of the EBacc, we built a text database ...
Zhu Hua, Yunpeng Du, Elin Arfon
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Grammar, Ontology, and the Unity of Meaning [PDF]
, 2013 Words have meaning. Sentences also have meaning, but their meaning is different in kind from any collection of the meanings of the words they contain. I discuss two puzzles related to this difference.
REICHARD, ULRICH
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Language policy and nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa.
, 2007 PhDWhile not essential, the link between language and national identity is nevertheless often a highly important and salient one, a fact illustrated by the centrality of linguistic concerns in many nationalist discourses throughout the world.
Orman, J, Orman, Jon., Orman, Jon
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has a growing influence on planning, teaching and assessment practices in education. In New Zealand, the Ministry of Education (2024) has acknowledged AI's expanding role in schools; nevertheless, limited data exist on teachers' practices and perspectives regarding its implementation.
Mohammed Tashmeer +2 more
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ПсихолінгвістикаThe purpose of the study is to investigate how Ukrainian, Spanish, and Turkish university students perceive the "coronavirus" concept and its relation to the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring potential cultural, social, or educational influences through ...
Олена Горошко +3 more
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Moderators' perceptions of consistency in Key Stage 2 writing moderation across local authorities
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores moderators’ perceptions of the consistency of Key Stage 2 (KS2) writing moderation across Local Authorities (LAs) in England, a process central to securing the reliability and fairness of teacher assessment in a high‐stakes accountability system.
Rebecca Clarkson
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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Icelandic plus English: language differentiation and functional categories in a successively bilingual child [PDF]
, 1998 This thesis investigates the formal and functional properties of the linguistic knowledge of a young bilingual child 'Katla' who successively acquires Icelandic (L1, from birth) and English (L2, from age 1:3).
Bohnacker, Ute
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Small enterprises (SEs) constitute a major component of economic systems, and their socio‐environmental commitment is critical for promoting societal well‐being. This paper examines the direct effect of sound financial practices on socio‐environmental commitment and evaluates the mediating role of financial constraints—specifically debt and ...
Marcos Álvarez‐Espiño +2 more
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